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May the 4’s be with you
Early bird edition is ready to go…I’m going to bed, see you in the morning!!!!!!
See you folks in the AM… 🙂
I’ll just drop off the pastries early for the East Coast crowd:
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Welcome and Good Morning Europe!
What’s hitting the Good News wires in European countries on this cool Monday morning?
U.K. parrot from Suriname – in quarantine – was infected with H5N1 Avian flu virus from Asian birds!
Suriname Wildlife
UN Millennium Development Goals
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
Has there been any indictments yet?
(Just wanted to be the first to ask.)
If you see this in the morning then call me and tell me it is time to wake up for the indictments!
The phone number is:
202-456-1111
Just tell whoever answers to wake up “George”, they’ll know who you are talking about (My nickname is “W”), because the indictments should be here soon. Remind me about the impeachment party too! I don’t want to miss that.
As for the impeachment party: I hope you will have the right booze and mixers to make a “Pussy Foot”.
Mind you, don’t let me have more than one of those! Otherwise I get all silly and start walking around acting like I am the president.
Can I bring my friend Dick? He always has some great stories to tell when he is liquored up. There is this one story about a girl named Judy and what she does with these big alluminium tubes… Well, I’ll let him tell that one!
Good morning to you all!
Another busy sunny morning has started here in Lyon…
Have a nice day!
Good Morning! I’m about to get ready for work, but I wanted to say “Hello!!” to everyone.
And to mention that if you’re just back from an exciting weekend of no Booman Tribune, you might want to visit the first meetings of the BooBooks bookclub. It met Saturday & Sunday, with a lively conversation covering the book Bayou Farewell, by Mike Tidwell and post Katrina concerns.
Thanks, kb. I’d better start taking nominations for our next book. Should I do a wee diary on that?
YES!!!!
Okay, I did it. Diary up. Everybody please think about what book you want to read and discuss next. I strongly urge that it be a newish book, because if we pick something like, say, Reading Lolita in Tehran, that’s been out for a long time, a lot of us already have copies so we won’t want to buy a new one and the Trib won’t get any $ help from it.
I saw it! I’m pushing for fiction….
Good morning Katie (and all)!
Just a quick note to let you know that I finally heard back from my friend regarding the fabric warehouse I recently mentioned. The name of the warehouse is SR Harris, and their website is http://www.srharrisfabric.com
Sadly. . .the 30,000 square feet of warehouse is only located in Brooklyn Park, MN – with no other outlets and no ability to order through the Net.
Sorry I wasn’t able to assist you in your quest for tencil. But I wanted to share the site with you to let you know I tried.
Good day!
I’m going to call them and see if they can help. Maybe they can refer me somewhere if they can’t work with me directly.
Thank you very, very much — I was just thinking about this a few minutes ago! The timing is perfect.
If you’re interested in sewing and in the Twin Cities it’s a must visit, like Powells in Portland. Other Twin Cities musts are Uncle Hugo’s and Dream Haven if you’re an F&SF and Uncle Edgar’s if you’re a mystery fan. I’m sure there are a few more but nothing’s coming to my morning-fogged brain. Speaking of which, that seems a good question. If someone is coming to your current or former neck of the woods, is there anywhere that they absolutely must visit?
The one time I visited SR Harris I was in complete awe over the enormity of the place. Now that I have my mother’s sewing machine, I’m really excited about going back there soon.
In reference to “must see” places. . .let’s not forget “The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices”, currently under the management of The Science Museum of Minnesota. http://mtn.org/quack/devices/devindx.htm
The museum includes “must see” devices such as:
The Foot Operated Breast Enlarger Pump
“In 1976, four million women in the United States each spent $9.95 on this device which caused bruising…and nothing more. The user created a vacuum by pumping the pedal with the foot. The device consists of a pump, clear plastic tubing and three cups – all in large sizes.”
I think the amazing part is that four million women actually bought the device. As recently as 1976! (I can only assume they wanted larger “bicentennial boobs”.)
Just curious, Kelly – what part of the Cities do you live in? (If you don’t mind sharing)
Good day!
I used to live about ten blocks from Como Park in St. Paul, down toward the Capitol. Now I’m in Western Wisconsin in a small college town, about an hour from the Twin Cities.
Oh, Kansas, things got so nuts around here this weekend that I totally missed BooBooks. sob. I was so looking forward to it. I will have to read the diaries later today when I get the chance. Hell, I’m going to add my two cents anyway!!! Bayou Farewell was such a great book. Very thought provoking. Yes, absolutely do a “next book” diary.
Hi, Nag! Definitely put in your two cents!
Nag! I fixed your rating. I don’t know how that happened.
Fall is definitely here. Low 40s this morning. Time for work. See you all later.
Good morning, BooTribbers. Diane, that’s a great image… makes me want to go the local pumpkin patch farm, kick out the kindergarteners and steal all the pumpkins! My weekend was so busy that I never made it to the first BooBooks… ACK! I’ve been waiting for BooBooks very impatiently, too. Oh well, next one.
I have much to get done today… can’t hang out here too long. Anyway, here’s a young buck that was eating apples right outside my living room window before dawn this morning. There were 2 buck, the other one was much larger with a huge 6 point rack.
It’s not a good image… I’m surprised it came out at all, it was dark and a bit foggy. They were so cute, I had to try.
He’s so cute! Great picture, Nag.
Good morning to all. Apparently there is an expectation that indictments are coming later today as per my local radio station. (Danbury, Ct) Film at 11:00. 😉
I am just north of Danbury! lol (About 10 minutes north)
We’ll have to get together for a beer or a coffee sometime. I’ll even bring my republican wife so we can have some one to complain about… lol
Morning to all. Last night was the first time I had to turn on the heat to take the chill out of the air this year. I am so spoiled by usually only having to do that a couple times of year. I do not like a/c or forced heating. I miss my fireplace. After a beautiful 10 days of sunshine and beach weather here in San Diego it has been foggy, windy, chilly and drizzly.
Just wanted to drop in and say hello. May the indictmenets be with you!!!!
We’ve been turning our heat on for an hour or two in the morning for the past few days…but I really can’t complain since it’s the end of October…
Acck, my PISS is back with a vengeance this morning, after being able to ignore everything for 4 or 5 days! I hope they announce the indictments today (although I’m still betting on Wednesday)!
Hi, all. Friends called from just west of W. Palm Beach about 9:15 their time to let me listen to the wind howling around their house. They just called back about l0 minutes ago to say they’re now in the eye and were able to let the dog out to do her thing. When they could open the doors to peek they saw one of their trees was snapped in half and their back fence is leaning and sure to come down when the wind starts blowing from the other direction. The neighbor’s RV is leaning toward it, too.
They are sooo sick of these things.
We have friends in Jupiter who stayed there during the storm. All fingers are crossed.
Cold and damp in SF area this morning…
Anticipation is high for indictments….I have a bottle of champagne chilled for opening when they come down…hmmm is that bad??? Is celebrating someone getting caught doing something bad ‘doing harm’? Damn these pagan ethics – lol….
Busy, busy week at work….and getting ready for the weekend of Pagan New Year celebrations….
I’ll be dropping by with 4’s and looking forward to Fitzmas!
Hi everyone, just up here in Ca. and tuning in to see the hurricane coverage on CNN.
Nice to see that Cali brought some treats by early.
curly and I made a trip out of the city this weekend to the Birkshires. Here’s an image from our morning walk yesterday. Close to Lenox, MA.
This makes me want to go pick mushrooms. Looks like the perfect spot. AAAahhhhhh.
Hi everyone!
I just saw a priceless image-caption conjunction on CNN. The footage was of Bush striding across the White House lawn; the caption read “No Longer A Threat.”
Wonder if they’ve got a scoop on the indictments…
Oh, that it be true!!
Hi, no3reed. I don’t think we’ve met and I just want to say hello and welcome to the cafe. My apologies if you’ve been hanging out here and I just missed you!
Hi Kansas,
No, you haven’t missed anything. I think this is my first cafe post, though I’ve stuck my nose in and smelled the coffee from time to time. Thanks for the greeting!
Glad you climbed overboard and decided to splash around.
Ah yes–I played a #3 reed on my clarinet in school band.
The original Evil Weed comes from this plant:
Welcome to the pond.
The Marco Island crew’s house is on the S. side of the island and so probably was 10 miles from the eye wall at 6 am. I noticed that CNN’s Marco crew, Anderson Cooper I think, was off the broadcasting rotation when I was peeking in during my final snooze hours from the left coast here.
Florida Mom is in Ft. Myers which is safely distant on the good side. But she said she’d be weathering the storm with upstairs friends so we haven’t heard from her yet.
The Marco Island web cams all seemed to be frozen yesterday, and the good one I used last summer on the Marriott hotel is down for construction.
Good Morning All, Just got up about an hour ago here on the west coast and have a couple minutes before heading to work-work as opposed to work-home.
Gooserock and I are needles and pins over Wilma. Tried to call Mom, no answer, we we figure she’s still in her stairwell at her condo. Other family left west coast of FL to go to east coast of FL to be safer and we see that the eye is passing over them just now!!!
Yikes! Makes you feel so helpless, being so far away.
Keep your fingers crossed for EVERYone down there.
Truly….we didn’t plan this close proximity of our posts. Honest! This is one of the dangers of being a two computer family.
Lovely to have both of you here and we are keeping your mom and all Floridians in our thoughts….
stop by more often Puget4.
Thanks Diane. I’m sneaking this in on my lunch break at work-work.
Thanks for the power thoughts for Mom.
he grunts. Still working on vertical here. Finding a nice mug of Earl Gray White Tip waiting for me helped. But it’s not going to be enough. I’m diagonal at best. Heck! I just walked downstairs, moved the robovac to a new room, passed the caffeine and failed to pick any up, then went back upstairs. Dumb. Very dumb.
My friend who also loves Peter Himmelman has a new album out Waiting Room. But today I just got his last one Sometimes Nothing by Dave Sills (rocking cool guy)
Friends getting stuff published and recorded this week… too cool. BostonJoe with Direct Actions and now Dave Sills (his real name).
OH and I am a new fan of CD Baby. CDBaby.com is fucking COOL! 🙂 Support indy musicians.
Just made it out of bed; spouse and I were up late last night listening to the radio and me making him laugh with some of my editorial comments. Wish I could remember some of them now…
About to turn on MSNBC in the hopes of some “breaking news” while I’m busy working today; since I got the kitchen clean, I’m going to switch to the other end of the apartment and work on the bathroom, then the bedroom and work my way back out to the big mess in the living room. Or if there is breaking news I can work on the living room and watch while I sort stuff.
Have a great day, everyone…
Cali Scribe has bedhead! 🙂
I just read CounterPunch… BC LAW lawyers are trying to prosecute Bush for War crimes. !!!!
from syrcultureworkers.com
And in it were fantastic posters, buttons and bumperstickers.
But two books stuck out and we both thought they’d be good to get. These are for young ladies… and I’m going to be so thrilled to get and read them with DanDan. Having to write these out as my account keeps showing up when I do a paste. Typos mine and before I begin – there are books for boys, too…
A Maze Me Peoms for girls – Naomi Shihab Nye
If you write three lines down in a notebook every day you will find out what you notice. Uncanny connections will be made visible to you That’s what I started learning when I was 12 and I never stoppedlearning it. In more htna 70 poems on myriad sunjects, Ney’s empathetic and humorous voice connctds to girl’s inner world and to universal experineces. 12 and up
33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s History Tanya Bolden, ed. “Rain or shine I inted to spend Sunday with you that we may all together concoct a declaration”, wrote Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848 confirming the tea party at which the eneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention was planned. This book is an accessible introduction to the many women who “concocted” the changes that have been realized in the rights and roles of US women over the past 150 years. Using period photos, quotes, timelines and origina essays, it covers topics as divers as suffragettes, skirt lengths , labor her-story, the ERA and Title IX. Entertaining, inspring reading for girls (and boys) 10 and up.
Happy reading 🙂
I love this picture!!!!! Danni does too.
I’d be remiss to not include “Our Boys Speak” by John Nikkah
Essay, poems, diary entries and stories written by boys aged 12 – 18 on family, sports, religion, depressions, sex and dating, violence and other topics.
“When I was in the military, I got a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
Hi all,
Just heard from Florida Mom in Ft. Myers.
Even though last year’s Punta Gorda storm passed just 15 miles away on the bad side, its winds never rotated out of the quadrant protected on two sides by her massive concrete condo buildings. So she had no trouble at all from that storm. Plus there was no surge.
Today’s storm that passed 60 miles farther away, and on the good side, brought winds onto her exposed walls and windows. She had damage to two of her metal shutters over the porch, and a glass window blew out behind shutters over her living room desk.
But since she has so many books, the pane just sat down there without breaking. Once again although water is near and not very far below her, the rotation prevented any surge, so she had no flooding.
A caller to the Thom Hartmann show farther away in Tampa said he was getting frequent power outages, and that they often get outages in his area. (How’s that energy deregulation workin’ out for you?)
Mom was just telling me the same thing, that her power had been out, when the line went dead, so I imagine communication will be dicey with her for the next few days. She’s now of a mind to consider relocating to some kind of shelter in future storms but we’ll discuss all this in calmer times when she comes for her Thanksgiving-Christmas visit next month.
What we’re really concerned about are my Marco Island relatives, whose house was probably 10 miles from the eye wall (though on the “better” side). They’d evacuated, but to east coast friends who live–you guessed it–about 10 miles from the eye wall on its exit path. So we doubt we’ll hear from them from either location for a while.
Glad your mom’s okay, Gooserock, and fingers crossed for your other relatives. My friends near West Palm Beach got through it with lots of tree damage, a few roof tiles off, fences down, no electricity, but all else is okay. She said the neighborhood is a mess. Palm Beach or maybe it’s West Palm reports no water service.
I just heard from my friend Tom in North Palm Beach he is now just 10 feet from the ocean. The eye went over them and it was a rough ride he said. He’s been through eight eyes now so far. Every tree is leveld and his condo (the one he’s temping in since his home was crushed by Ivan, Jeanne and Francis last year and STILL NOT okayed for fixing…)
His cell cut out.
He’s been what now..
A fighter pilot
a cowboy
a carpenter…
Damn! He’s wanting to be the entire Village People??
the cop for Bush…since the guy who was the police officer in the original Village People is in trouble with the law in San Mateo County…would that Bush suffer the same fate in the World Court…
He likes to play dress up ya know 🙂
Isn’t she around Ft. Myers?
I’ve just tried to call Mom there again and the phone company itself is reporting problems. I hope Tracy’s OK.
she lives in Alabama!
Oh wow, she’d offered shelter for Florida Mom — I automatically presumed it would be nearby!!
Now watch, it was one of the others of you who offered, and I’ve stepped in it in deeper still. Some days my mind is as sharp as a steel sieve!
I’m pretty sure it was Tracy.
Just to be on the safe side, I gave her a call but all I got was her messenger service.
I’m sure she’s okay. 🙂
Though in the past I have supported Finnish attitudes to nakedness, and the fact that it is no big deal here in Finland, it is very uncool to impose it upon other cultures – to whit…
“We have framed charges of indecency against the lady tourist from Finland under section 294 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” Sugan Singh, a police officer in Pushkar, told Reuters.
Police said the tourist walked to her hotel in the nude after taking a dip in the lake in Pushkar in the desert state of Rajasthan Saturday, angering several local people and priests.
Pushkar has a famous temple dedicated to Brahma — the Hindu god of creation — and is popular with foreign tourists who come for its desert ambience, camel safaris and annual camel fair.
She deserves to be punished.
The ad on the right hand side of this page:
http://www.menaiset.fi/
which has been on billboards and magazines in Finland recently, without so much as a peep out of anybody, will give you a flavour of Finnish attitudes.
Yar!
Is that a PSA for breast cancer? Yowza.
A bit more hip than dasies and pink ribbons…
for a very popular but tough women’s magazine called Me Naiset or ‘We Women”
Just noticed one on the front page that mentioned “absinthe”.
Why do I mention it? Well, it puts me in mind of a story about the late Henry Fonda. He was at work on a movie, when he suddenly developed chest pains. He immediately went to the studio doctor, who checked him out, found his heart weakened by a virus, and prescribed a glass of absinthe every day.
Henry was puzzled. “Why absinthe, Doc?”
“Well, because absinthe make the heart grow, Fonda…”
{ducks and covers…}
That was pretty bad, Cali. I used to know a joke (probably much worse than that one)and the punchline was “abscess makes the farts go honda”…
Probably just as well that I can’t remember the rest.
my ex-boyfriend used to say “absence makes the hard-on grow”, but we won’t get into that… 😉
whoa, hold on there a minute, woman. We run a clean cafe here. None of that dirty talk.